News Pageant Media leads Independent Publisher Awards shortlist Publishing companies earning £10m or less will compete for PPA-run awards, presented in December By Adam Levitt • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Crowd-funded news site Spot.us is sticking to startup roots, says founder David Cohn is slowly weaning his startup off the grant money won in 2008's Knight News Challenge and building up other revenue streams By Laura Oliver • 4 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Global newspaper circulation fell for first time in 2009, according to report World Press Trends report recording a 0.8% decline in global circulations last year, the first in the history of the report By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News #WEFHamburg: NewsCloud sets its sights on communities of connected readers Knight Foundation backed startup NewsCloud is an open source technology platform working with Facebook to create better interaction for readers By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News Nobel peace prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo Xiaono is currently serving an 11-year sentence in China for inciting subversion of state power By Joel Gunter • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: One in five journalists lacks 'essential' multimedia skills, suggests Poynter research New research by the institute suggests news organisations need to do more to motivate staff in need of training By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Invest in a more human side, Zeit online editor tells Google Wolfgang Blau meets with Madhav Chinappa and Peter Barron from Google at the World Editors Forum to discuss the search engine's courtship of news organisations By Laura Oliver • 3 min read
News #WEFHamburg - WEF newsroom study suggests high optimism, demand for greater multimedia Half of survey's respondents claim to work in a fully integrated multimedia newsroom already By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Significant advantage to advertising on content shared by social media, study suggests According to CNN research, people are 20 per cent more likely to recommend brands advertised around shared content By Joel Gunter • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: News companies need to be in 'perpetual beta', says New York Times CEO Digital advances at the New York Times include integrating its website with Facebook and allowing readers to filter news feeds by friends' recommendations By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Cameroon journalist's deportation case adjourned for three months High Court delays hearing over judicial review for NUJ member Charles Atangana By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Paywall will not remove NYT from 'online conversation', says CEO New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson says first click free strategy will keep paper in 'open web eco system' By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
